The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. (1839)
London : J.W. Parker · leaf 111
f the chisel, the people ofAthens were compelled either to wade or to be ferriedover the river Cephisus for want of a bridge. The Romans, however, observed the error of theirGrecian predecessors in slighting the arch in architecture;and they succeeded in rearing the stupendous arch, andthe imposing… … Chinese Bridge. The Chinese have for so many ages remained, as it were,in a stationary position, following so accurately in the stepsof their ancestors, that it were hard to say that the Romanspreceded them in bridge-building, and yet it is undoubtedthat the Romans first communicated to the world…
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